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Nick Tennant is nothing if not an excellent businessman.  Not only has he already started one business, a car valet company that went under as the economy tanked, he’s also a 24-year-old college dean.  The college he started is the Med Grow Cannabis College, where students pay $485 dollars to learn how to cultivate and […]

There’s an unusual new exhibit in a Warsaw, Poland zoo.  However, it’s only going to be on display until Sunday, so if you want your kids to see this rare creature, you’d better hurry.  The prehistoric beast on display?  Why, it’s the humble Homo sapiens, or human being.  That’s right, there’s a zoo with a […]

You know, even though most Americans just finished a three-day food orgy, not everyone out there has enough to eat.  It’s not just a question of bad food or odd food, it’s a question of no food.  If you’re ever starving, and in need of something to fill your belly, then Mental Floss has a […]

Three days after the biggest shopping day of the year is the biggest shopping day of the year in the cyber world.  That’s right, boys and girls, it’s Cyber Monday and all around the world, people are frantically clicking refresh on their web browsers in an attempt to scoop up those bargains before they’re all […]

In the words of 55-year-old Vietnamese man Le Van, “I’m a person that does things differently. I’m not like normal people.”  When you consider that Le Van missed his wife so much he dug her up from the grave and slept beside her corpse for five years because he wanted to hug her, not being […]

For the fourth time in two years, a building in Ellenwood, Georgia has been broken into by desperate criminals.  However, this is the first time the robber has left behind a written plea for forgiveness after his crime.  You see, the building that keeps getting robbed is Berean Baptist Church, headed by the Rev. Roger […]

It’s hard to run a business in this economic climate.  When even big companies are having trouble making ends meet, you know it has to be significantly more difficult for a small business.  Fortunately for Caroline Estes, owner of Austin, Texas-based Amazonia Aquariums, she has an idea.  Well, actually, she has two ideas, and they’re […]

Everyone always thinks they pack on a lot of weight during the holiday season.  In fact, yesterday after Thanksgiving dinner, my dad was complaining about the five extra pounds he swears he’ll put on thanks in no small part to the incredibly delicious meal put together by my aunt and uncle.  He’s not the only […]

In what is believed to be a legal precedent, the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan, or FMRI, of a convicted rapist and murderer will be used against him during his sentencing phase.  Brian Dugan, who was convicted in Chicago of the rape and murder of a 10-year-old, received the FMRI and entered it into evidence […]

Remember in the classic cartoon How The Grinch Stole Christmas, when the Grinch broke into the houses in Whoville and stole all their Christmas presents and decorations and whatnot?  Well, in Herscher, Illinois, a woman and her children returned home from a weekend trip to find out she’d been reverse-Grinched.   That’s right, someone broke […]

It’s a bit of perverse vigilante justice chased with a bit more of perverse vigilante justice.  Roy Morris James Batemand and Richard Robert Charles Wilde took matters into their own hands when the two traveled to Torrensville, Australia, to beat up a notorious drug dealer.  However, they didn’t beat him up because he was dealing […]

I am a huge evangelist for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim line of programming.  Even when they let me down by bringing in more life action crap, I’m usually the first in line to watch their new cartoons and, thankfully, they’ve launched a service that will make it even easier for me to pluck the gems […]

It’s getting closer and closer to the holiday season, and everyone is starting to get ready.  For some people, that means shopping.  For others, that means cooking and getting out those once-a-year recipes.  However, if you’re a store in Auckland, New Zealand, you get Santa Claus a facelift.  A 66-foot-tall Santa Claus statue has gotten […]